Sunday, March 25, 2018

Arab League

Now I
come to another of this so called unity among Muslims and introduce you to an
organization that is as useless as the one described before that is OIC.
Established in 1945, it has now 22 members all of them related by the Arab
Ethnicity with little else in common in terms of their relationships among
themselves and with the outside world. Here again I will give you examples
which will show how this organization has been unable to help Arab in resolving
their conflict among themselves or even project any kind of real power to the
outside world. Let’s start with Palestinian issue which has been festering since
the late forties; no Arab league success has been witnessed in this area. Along
with the Israel-Arab War, this organization has simply ignored the Palestinian
issue since their members tend not to agree on anything. Same thing goes with
the First Gulf war, when Iraq invaded Kuwait; it was only the United States
that was able to unite quarrelsome countries into a ragtag team of members to
oust Iraq from Kuwait.

When the
U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, the voice of Arab league was again muted or silent
and when the Arab spring came, there was no effort to resolve this issue among them.
Now again with the U.S. moving its embassy to Jerusalem, the Arab League is
just reduced to denunciation and nothing much. Although headquartered in Cairo,
Egypt, it is predominantely influenced by the Saudis as they have the money to
muscle with the kind of voice that the Arab league finds when it does. During
the Saudi Boycott of Qatar (which is still ongoing), Arab League does not count
as they are just sitting pretty on the sidelines. And the Yemen war which is
also part of the Arab League and also the OIC, nothing has changed much. No
discussion to end this war. Both the OIC and the Arab League are on the whole
useless organization which cannot resolve any of the issues facing the Muslim
world and it is complete waste of resources as the Islamic (and Arab) countries
pursue their own path based on their own self interest.